Patricia McBride Quotes

When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina.

I wanted to be ballerina, be in a band, then in drama.

I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

Having done so many versions, I never felt like an artist in 'Swan Lake.'

'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly.

I was a dancer.

My sister was in ballet growing up. I spent almost the entirety of 7 through 12 backstage at Lincoln Center, just running around, waiting for 'The Nutcracker' to end.

I was a ballerina for 10 years growing up, but I stopped.

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

Usually I perform with dancers.

I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.

Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise.

Look at where I lived! Four blocks from Lincoln Center. I used to play in the fountain. And then I started taking dance lessons. I was in 'The Nutcracker' for the N.Y. City Ballet when I was 8 and dancing in 'The Firebird' for George Balanchine when I was 9. Believe me, that's something you don't ever forget.

I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.

I didn't know if I could act, but I knew I could be a great ballet dancer, and Balanchine put out the carpet for me.

I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

Now I'm going to put my eyelashes on and stretch my legs out and do a show.

I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.

I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.

I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now.

I will never give up my dream of being a prima ballerina and backup dancer for Justin Timberlake!

My grandma was a ballerina.

I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places.

I danced in choruses from about 1959 to 1967, in 'Take Me Along,' 'Wildcat,' and 'Subways Are for Sleeping.'